SUF: Nominative and Accusative Cases Review

Nominative and Accusative Cases Review

Please review the following presentations on the nominative and accusative cases in German.

Nominative and Accusative Cases in German - Review

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Nominative Case in depth

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Accusative Case in depth

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Nominative and Accusative German pronounsAdditional Review - Accusative Case

Review: What is the accusative case? The accusative case is used for direct objects in German.

Nominative and Accusative Forms of Definite and Indefinite Articles
(i.e. the various ways of saying "the" and "a" or "an" in German depending on the case / gender of noun)

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We have also learned the accusative pronouns. These pronouns are used for direct objects, e.g. instead of 'ich' you need to use 'mich' for the direct object.

Possessive Adjectives

The possessive adjectives (mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer) are also called ein words because they are declined just like the indefinite article ein, eine

So for example:

Ich sehe meinen Hund.

  • Nominative=who/what+verb
    • Who sees? The answer is ich, so ich is the subject. We say that it is in the nominative case.
  • Accusative=verb+whom/what
    • Sees whom/what? The answer is den Hund. We say that den Hund is in the accusative case.

Change all der words (masculine) to den in the accusative case.

  • ein must also be changed to einen. 
  • Do the same with all of the pronouns:
    • mein/dein/sein/ihr/unser/euer/ihr/Ihr.

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